What's Alive? (Rise and Shine) (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

The book arrived quickly and was exactly what I needed!

This is a very nice book that explains what living things are and shows the similarities of animals and plants even though they don't "look" the same. My 3 yo has quickly grasped the idea of what's living and non living in the first 3 pages of the book and by the time we reached half of the book, she can pretty much tell what's living and non living in all of the things I've asked her to identify. Great book! (if you're taking advantage of the free shipping by the way, amazon will take advantage of the 10 day shipping period. Ours EXCEEDED 10 days! This book is just so nice so its well worth the wait!)

My 2 1/2 year old daughter likes this book. So do I. I had to edit one page about death but it all makes since. I was surprised one day when she told someone that dogs need energy and she proceeded to tell them that they get energy from food, water and the sun. Blew me out of the water! Children are like sponges and they want to know how things work just like we do. These books are great at introducing the facts of life to young children and they can explain it better than I can.

It is a good educational book and offers a "soft way" to explain a child this main concept of life. My daughter is four and a half; the book helped her to understand the difference between living and nonliving things. I ordered it after my father passed away to help her understand this change in our lives.

Living things eat, drink, sleep and grow - a simple explanation with examples that will appeal to most small children (e.g. cats, dogs, birds). Living things also die, and this is touched upon very briefly. I am always looking for books to assist me in homeschooling my 5 yr old son, and it's difficult to find educational books that don't bore or beat a topic into the ground. This was a satisfying choice.

I teach special education and have found this a simple and concrete way to introduce the topic of living and non-living things. My students enjoyed the book and I would recommend it for teachers and parents.

We bought this for our almost 3 year old and she likes it. Like one other reviewer, we "edited" the page about not alive (little bird that fell from a tree) but I think she gets the gist. The only thing that has been a problem is we read this for bed time so it's a little hard to work around the activity. It takes up a couple pages at the end of the book and doesn't really work in story format. But as a whole the book is a great introduction to what's alive and explains the basics so a 3 year old can follow along.

Great book

This book is perfect to explain my little one who is alive or not. Easy for her to understand.

very pleased with shipping, delivery time and product.

It is a favourite book series for early science studies. We are homeschooling family. My girls are 5 and 9 y.o. They both read the books of this series with a pleasure. After reading they report us about what was the book about. This one greatly delivers the message about the alive and non-alive objects and creatures around us!

We have most of the Level 1 books. They are a great introduction to science for little children. The only reason these don't get five stars is because a slightly bigger font size would have made these books excellent.

Excellent Science book for Early Childhood - very simple classification of living and non-living Great early introduction book for Early Chilhood.